“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
For the entire law is fulfilled in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' — Paul's radical condensation: 'holos nomos' (the entire law, all 613 commandments in Jewish reckoning) is 'plēroō' (fulfilled, completed) in the single commandment of neighbor-love (Leviticus 19:18), establishing love as the law's summum bonum and its replacement, not its expansion.
Church Fathers on Galatians 5:14
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Seeing that they made so much of the Law, he says, “If you wish to fulfill it, do not be circumcised, for it is fulfilled not in circumcision but in love.” Observe how he cannot forget his grief, but constantly touches upon what troubled him, even when launched into his moral discourse.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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